Published November 22, 1999 | Version v1
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BPS domain walls in large-N supersymmetric QCD

Description

We explicitly construct BPS domain walls interpolating between neighboring chirally asymmetric vacua in a model for large-N pure supersymmetric QCD. The BPS equations for the corresponding ZN symmetric order parameter effective Lagrangian reduce to those in the AN Landau-Ginsburg model assuming that the higher derivative terms in the Kaehler potential are suppressed in the large-N limit. These BPS domain walls, which have vanishing width in the large-N limit, can be viewed as supermembranes embedded in a (3+1)-dimensional supersymmetric QCD background. The supermembrane couples to a three-form supermultiplet whose components we identify with the composite fields of supersymmetric QCD. We also discuss certain aspects of chromoelectric flux tubes (open strings) ending on these walls which appear to support their interpretation as D-branes

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Identifiers

PII
S0550321399005623;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
562
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 158-180
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35023804
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CHIRAL SYMMETRY; GINZBURG-LANDAU THEORY; ORDER PARAMETERS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SUPERSYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY

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Copyright (c) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.